Say it aint so Obama. Not more war.

Prsident Barrack Obamas intends to win the war on Terror by

adding an additional 17, 000 American troops from Iraq to Afghanistan. This is a futile attempt to win a war that was lost by the Bush Administration.

The American troop level will be pushed to 55,000, in addition to 30,000 other foreign troops. Is President Obama proposing an escalation simply simply to avoid losing in Afghanistan?"

President Johnson tried the same thing in Viet Nam in 1967 this is well-documented in Daniel Ellsberg's history of the Vietnam War. These brave young troops are being asked to perform a miracle

Russia spent 10 years there with over 150 thousand troops. They secured the larger cities and became prisoners of those cities. They never could control the entire country

There has to be a way to come to terms with our enemy the radical Islamic Taliban and Al Queda.

Bush did not weed out Osama Ben Ladin's Al Queda . Instead he Invaded Iraq. This was the end of the progress on the U.S. war on Terrorism. Iraq was a strategical mistake. However, can we pick up where we left off in Afghanistan?

Pakistan made a peace treaty with the radicals in the mountain of Pakistan. Is there any way for us to come to an agreement with Moderate Taliban. How many more young brave Americans must die in the mountains of Afghanistan? Russia went home broke. Do we have an exit plan that can get us out of the area before we go broke? This is a moral question whether the expanding war in Afghanistan and Pakistan, by troop transfers from Iraq, is winnable, and in what sense?

I do not back our President on this escalation of the hostilities in Afghanistan.

Please read my post Soviet"Union in Afghanistan" Feb for more information on the futility of using our Army in that area.